reenforce
Americanverb (used with object)
Example Sentences
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Wars tend to reenforce national stereotypes and to harden ideologies.
From Time Magazine Archive
From streets, from factories, from jails went forth thousands of volunteers and conscripts to reenforce desperate, haggard foresters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two fresh Indian brigades, supported by mountain artillery and heavy mortars, were rushed to reenforce Towang.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Putnam was ordered to reenforce General McDougall, who was in command at the hill; but before he arrived the British had flanked the Americans and driven them from their position.
From "Old Put" The Patriot by Ober, Frederick Albion
But as usual, the Serbians were not strong enough to follow up their advantage, and presently strong reserves came up to reenforce the Bulgarian forces.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan
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